An American peace delegation that included several Southern Californians asserted Friday that its intervention in Baghdad had resulted in the expected release of four ailing American hostages, announced by Iraq on Thursday. The Fellowship of Reconciliation, a 75-year-old pacifist group based in Nyack, N.Y., led a 21-member delegation into Iraq from Amman, Jordan, on Oct. 20.

A delegation of U.S. religious figures and peace activists will mark the 50th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima by publicly apologizing to the Japanese people for the massive destruction caused by the bomb. "Five decades after the atomic bombings, the U.S. government has yet to issue an apology," said Jo Becker, executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an interfaith pacifist organization founded in 1915 and based in Nyack, N.Y.

A delegation of U.S. religious figures and peace activists will mark the 50th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima by publicly apologizing to the Japanese people for the massive destruction caused by the bomb. "Five decades after the atomic bombings, the U.S. government has yet to issue an apology," said Jo Becker, executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an interfaith pacifist organization founded in 1915 and based in Nyack, N.Y.

An American peace delegation that included several Southern Californians asserted Friday that its intervention in Baghdad had resulted in the expected release of four ailing American hostages, announced by Iraq on Thursday. The Fellowship of Reconciliation, a 75-year-old pacifist group based in Nyack, N.Y., led a 21-member delegation into Iraq from Amman, Jordan, on Oct. 20.